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📷 : Frederick Stanley. October 27, 1928. 4 color print. Modern Graphic History Library, Washington University in St. Louis.
so I took a bite out of a fruit today thinking it was an apple, and I almost spat it out because it was a terrible apple, but then I realized “oh! It’s a pear!” and I ate the entire thing because it was a pretty good pear.
There’s a metaphor in that, but it’s too early in the morning for me to parse it
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